Boston author/talk radio host Michael Graham writes, “I‘m posting this at 6:45pm today, so let me be the first person in the Boston media to call this election: Scott Brown is the next US Senator from Massachusetts!”

Rasmussen reports a bit of bad news for Scott Brown — among those who decided how they would vote in the past few days, Coakley has a slight edge, 47 percent to 41 percent — but then offers this: 22 percent of Democrats voted for Brown.

BOSTON – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama‘s health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office.

The loss by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president’s party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president’s health care legislation and the rest of Obama’s agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

Democratic fingerpointing began more than a week ago as polls started showing a tight race, with the White House accusing Coakley of a poor campaign and the Coakley camp laying at some of the blame on the administration. Obama flew to Boston for last-ditch personal campaigning on Sunday.

Poor Obama! It’s the eve of the anniversary of his inauguration. The State of the Union was supposed to be very grand. And now what? He has been repudiated! He made this election a referendum on the Democrats agenda, and the people of Massachusetts, the most liberal state, gave him a resounding no.

Now, I think that could be good for Obama. He’s a man of change. Let him change. I hope he becomes the President I thought he could be when I voted for him. With the midterm elections looming in the fall, he can readjust, set himself apart from Congress. Take the people seriously.

Or as Steve Martin used to say in the earlier, funnier episodes of Saturday Night Live while contemplating redemption…Nahhhh.

The Anchoress adds, “Starting tomorrow, you’re going to hear Democrats talking less about healthcare and more about ‘jobs, jobs, jobs.’”

Here’s what’s being ignored, but should not be forgotten about this race: the sheer meanness of Martha Coakley and her campaign character assassins. TV reporters largely sanitized the race in the final days, refusing to cover the Coakley campaign’s vicious direct-mail droppings against Republican Scott Brown. The cover-up was as shameless as the slander.

The Massachusetts Democratic Party mailed a package that announced: “1,736 Women Were Raped In Massachusetts in 2008; Scott Brown Wants Hospitals To Turn Them All Away.” A TV commercial by Coakley flashed the words, “Deny rape victims care,” with a voiceover that announces, “Brown even favors letting hospitals deny emergency contraception to rape victims.”

Team Coakley wanted the state’s voters to think of Brown not as pro-life, but as an anti-abortion radical, a man so extreme that he had no compassion for female victims of a violent sexual crime. Brown’s actual record was nothing like that. It was like turning Clark Kent into Jack the Ripper.

The amendment Brown proposed was a conscience clause for Catholic health facilities, which have objected that “emergency contraception” can lead to an early abortion. Brown proposed that health providers who don’t want to administer contraception must have a referral policy to a hospital that would provide it. That’s hardly “turning away” a rape victim. The “turning away” line is not a stretch. It is a lie.

This inflammatory and flagrantly false charge comes straight from the Bay State liberals who twenty years later are still complaining about the unfairness of GOP ads against Michael Dukakis about the truth of his get-out-of-jail weekend pass for that rapist and murderer named Willie Horton.

On the Internet two days before the vote, Time’s Michael Scherer offered a note of journalistic independence and integrity by calling out the Coakley camp with a blog post headlined “On Contraception, Democrats Roll Towards Gutter In Massachusetts.”

Martha Coakley also demonstrated the secular liberal’s intense desire to crush religious liberty in a radio interview on the same subject. When host Ken Pittman suggested there’s still religious freedom in emergency rooms, Coakley said Catholics should avoid work in the field of health care: “You can have religious freedom, but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.”

Doesn’t that sound like the pro-abortion movement’s version of “Irish Need Not Apply?”

On the same weekend that liberal reporters went on the Sunday shows and railed against the Republicans for refusing to repudiate Rush Limbaugh for suggesting Obama would milk the earthquake in Haiti for political gain, there was silence on whether the Democrats should repudiate Coakley’s attacks, or whether Obama would be willing to endorse them.

It’s a corner of America with cozy harbor towns.
It’s salty air, wicker chairs, and a surf…that…pounds.
The Spirit of Massachusetts is the Spirit of America
The spirit of the red, white and blue.
The Spirif of Massachusetts is the Spirit of America
The spirit we that want to share with you.

As a Resident of NH I’d like to thank the people of the very liberal state of MA for firing the 1st shot in the revolution that will take back this country. Liberal beware! Life is good! Nice race Sen. Brown…

Bravo for freedom and democracy – in Boston, the site of the original Tea Party.

Americans in this vote have rejected the corruption of the Democratic Party, with its bribery, its backroom deals, its threats, its elitist authoritarianism.
They’ve rejected statism.

What will Obama do? He’s a malignant narcissist. He won’t concede; he’ll be furious that You rejected Him. He’ll wreak a revenge; he’ll attack – blaming the wealthy, the Wall Street banks, the industries, the Tea Parties, the….
Obama cannot handle criticism. Or rejection. His reaction will be vicious and divisive.

The radical Democrats? Their agenda is to insert a statist infrastructure. They don’t care that Americans don’t want it. They are elites and consider that THEY know what’s right and the people are ignorant peasants.

They won’t change; they’ll try to ram through their agenda anyway, while Obama threatens, and chastizes the people.

Even though Drudge reported that Coakley conceded by telephone I am not sure but statistically at this point she can not win the results as of now are 1,036,855 Scott Brown and 921,459 Coakley it still looks like at least a 5% point lead shich will not according to Massachusetts law require a recount!

Still trying to find out if she did in fact concede if so then it is a done deal.

I hope that Coakley is going to Chappaquiddick for a ceremonial baptism wherein she can confess her magnificent record of sins under color of authority.

I further hope that the Justice Department takes her prosecutorial excesses under consideration when they file criminal charges against her.

This woman is demonstrated to be evil incarnate; a woman with no moral compass whatsoever. The only reason that she is not now in Federal prison is that the Democratic machine in Massachusett[e]s has protected her sorry ass.

Praetorian:
You teabaggers have been so pumped up about this race that you actually believe you have a chance to win in a state that is 3 to 1 Democratic. Astonishing! You’re gonna be so CRUSHED on Tuesday! And you can be sure that I’ll be here to pour lot’s and lot’s of salt in your wounds and rub your nose in that stuff in your diaper.
In fact, I’m taking down all the names of the chest thumpers. They get extra salt.

Now if we could somehow defeat the RINOs. I’m sure they will all sleep well, snug and smug in their beds tonight thinking that Zero is so bad they don’t have to change their ways. You know this is true.

Your messiah has failed. Your god is dead.
I wanted to be the first one to let you know. Your time is coming to an end. Your morality and ideology are dead.
America will never be a socialist country. Socialism is an ignorant ideology for weak people. We are not a weak people.
Our country had a crisis of faith, and the liar appeared at our moment of weakness.
We have awakened,and our eyes are open.
We have judged him and found him lacking.

Congratulations to Scott Brown for running a clean campaign and discussing what we need to hear, an open honest debate on the issues affecting us all. We have a Senator in Indiana that resides in DC, holds no town halls during recess, probably too far to travel, and his office staff tell us that the calls about the health care control are running about 50-50 when the independent polling shows most do not support the bill because there are no cost reduction and too many handouts to their friends. The Massachusetts voters responded; we were all born, just not yesterday.

The Dems, and RINOS ignored Americans marching in the street. CNN, and MSMBC tried to mislead America. However, the truth got out. A lot with Fox news. But folks like Michelle Malkin, Dr. Savage, Dr. Bulldog, and Pajamas Media continued to tell Americans what those who hate this country were up to.

Now, look at the huge battle that was just won in MA. A true revolution? Perhaps, we will know for sure this year, and in 2012. I think so.

Never in my life have I been so happy to be wrong!!!!
I can’t believe the spread! It’s incontestable. I’m in shock to think that MA did this! Maybe I’m too close to it! There’s hope for us yet. Could we getrid of Frank? Anything’s possible now, this was a seismic shift.
Or am I getting ahead of myself?

I’d like to take this time to remind everybody why you and I found this site to begin with: Dissatisfaction with the Republican party.
Yes, there may be other reasons, but that is truly the primary reason. The reason I don’t say dislike for the current regime is that Obama is a result of mistakes made by the Republicans during the Bush years. Never is a thousand years would that clown have had a shot if not for the excesses during the Bush years.

Now that we have a Senate that can fillibuster….

What are we going to do to prevent the same business as usual politics from dragging our country into further debt, weakness, and decline?

As I posted elsewhere, if there weren’t so many serious things to get done, I think Brown winning would be a positive thing overall due to its potential effect on the Republican party in terms of maybe getting it to pull back from its right wing nutcase extremes. While of course the spin is that this is some sort of referendum on Obama’s policies, it was really just a matter of Coakley running a really poor campaign, including essentially taking the entire holiday season off and not preparing well for the debates.

Also while the rest of the country considers Massachusetts to be the bluest of the blue states, we do have conservatives hiding out in the usual places, and a non-scary conservative like Brown can usually count on an automatic 40% slice of the pie (even McCain with the Bush’s dark legacy dragging all Republicans down still managed to get over 36%). So he really only needed to get an extra 10% (there was a 3rd party in the race). Also Massachusetts historically doesn’t like having both Senators and the governor all Democratic. In recent decades it’s usually the governor that’s been Republican, but with Patrick in….

Unfortunately Brown’s stated positions, especially involving health care, sound pretty dumb and informed, which probably means that until he at least gets his footing, he will likely be joining the other Republicans in being an obstacle to getting anything constructive done.

Congratulations America… 1 small step for the Voter… 1 giant leap for Freedom.

Some great men once had an Idea of a government of, by, and for The People, and so many sacrificed so much to see it take, if only a vulnerable, form. The genesis was simple (pure) – preclusion of Totalitarian Rule. The Idea lives on. Long live the Land of the Free.

I agree that Brown’s win is a great victory. It doesn’t matter to me if it’s DeLay/Rove/Bush/Lott in the early 2000s or Obama/Reid/Pelosi now. Government with one party in control of everything is bad for America.

#12 Leatherneck “RINOS beware.” #29 Scott: now if we could somehow defeat the RINOs.” Guys: you should be careful what you wish for. Here in Colorado, the far right, focus on the family, “tea party” types, have ran the grassroots of the Republican party for years.

Since 2004, under their heavy-handed & inept leadership, we Republicans have lost the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, two House seats, and a Senate seat. We’ve even had the Dems be able to present themselves as a party of fiscal responsibility in tough economic times. Hopefully that will begin to change in November if we get more of what you disdain as “RINOs” back into power.

Bottom line is simple, particularly here in the intermountain West (except for Utah). We don’t adhere to either extreme liberalism or loony tunes politics from the far right.

The center governs best, and we all should support that.

#38 Baal: “Obama is the result of mistakes made by the Republicans during the Bush years……..” Amen to that, brother.

The prepube Marxists like Praetorian need to have a serious nose rub in the results of preaching their failed ideology. The American people are waking up. They don’t want the crap that the Dem majority is desperately trying to ram into law. Democracy is inconvenient to them as their affiliations with ACORN, Media Matters and SEIU thugocracy show. They openly talk of initiating voter fraud to get the outcome they require. Well it didn’t work this time.

Nice job reminding all of us just how wrong Praetorian can be. Thanks to your posting we all know what a complete horses pituti he is. Why do bad things happen to good people? I can think of 5 or 6 other trolls who are desperately in need of similar reminders. Come to think of it, they just got one, thanks to you.

Trying reasonable after having your everloving, ideological, Soros inspired butt handed to you , eh? You, MOHO, Vivo and your other Marxist home boys and girls should go sulk it off at the Huffpo.

I am hoping that your fearless leaders Nancy, Harry and the defiant one,(His people said he will be even more defiant if Brown wins; check out Politico for the actual posture the White House adopted) trot out the Senate health bill and try to ram it through. Please do it! And after that, make sure you push Cap and Tax too. Ignore Jim Webb and Evan Byah who are saying don’t do it. What do they know? Now is the time to be cocky and defiant!

I haven’t made any on-line comments yet today, but I can’t hold this in. Way to go alternative media, and all the tea-baggers who got out to the many events across this (returning to) great nation.
Congratulations Scott – thanks for joining the race for the Senate, and especially for working hard and sticking with it in spite of the difficulties in the beginning. Make us proud, and vote like a true American who holds the values of our founding fathers, and hold fast to the constitution. God bless you and all your family and every one who supported you!

Despite the fact that the Union/Acorn vote thieves had a field day, Scott Brown gave Martha
a good old fashioned thrashing. That’s because the voters of not just Massachusetts, but Virginia, New Jersey and the
rest of America will put up with the slimy, socialist, sleaze-ball Comrade Alinsky politics of Barack Obama no longer.

Before I get off the vote stealing skull duggery that Rahm, David and company have perfected, though, let me share this fact:
the insiders I’ve been on the phone with tonight are convinced that 4% of the vote was stolen; meaning that Brown
really won by about 10%. What a she-lacking.

So how’s Barack, the word bully, going to use his bully pulpit now? Give a speech? Threaten? Demonize Brown. Blame it on the woman candidate? Not seat Brown? To Pee Wee Obama, this is much bigger than ObamaCare. This is more about public humiliation because Barack, the boy blunder, is slowly realizing the jig is up. The worm has turned. All the misspeaks and transparency fibs, and no earmark promises are catching up to Obama like a sordid past catches up to a louse.

Let’s face it, America, the guy is a scallywag of the first order. He’s not just protected by the secret service,
but now the public is becoming more and more aware that the brown eyed handsome man is a card carrying member of
the witless protection program.

What’s a crying, lying, bleeding heart libturd to do now that the great socialist, free enterprise-killing, neutering the military
game plan is being exposed to more and more of the American electorate? How stupid did they think we are? As I write, I doubt even
Chris in the bag for Obama Matthews is still getting that leg tingle everytime Obama opens his mouth to speak.

Oh, the speeches will still come. Obama will still be making things “clear”. “No American child should go to sleep without healthcare.”
Obama, you can talk a bluestreak but the more people listen closely to your words, the more people realize just how disingenuous a President can be. So, little man, what’r you going to do? Double down? Put all your money on black? Play the race
card till the cows come home.

What was it that your spiritual guide said after 9/11? Who remembers Jeremy Wright’s infamous quote that emanated from that black soul.

“The chickens have come home to roost?” That’s what your spiritual advisor said.

And after that and many other examples of America hate spewing from the pulpit, you keep on pewing with that despicable creature. Only when he turned on you did you throw him under the bus.

So, what are your plans now, Comrade Obama? Anger? revenge? You’ve pretty much stomped on every ideal on which this country was founded. Much like your bosom buddy, Bill Ayers, did that day five years ago when that rag, Chicago magazine, put Ayers on its cover, stomping on the American flag. Are you going to open our borders like a madman opening the floodgates of a great polluted reservoir? Are you going to pass the word not to seat Brown and pass the StealthCare bill in the dead of night? Are you going to unilaterally dismantle our nuke sites?
Leave us defenseless? I know what’s in your mind. I know what you’re capable of. Get back at the United States. Show it’s people they better never stand up to Obama again if they know what’s good for them.

One thing that I’m sure of, Mr. O.

You, sir, are not good for us. Not our black brothers, our white sisters, our Hispanic patriots. None of us. This isn’t a party thing. It’s not a Democratic Party thing. For it was the Democrats who put Brown over the top.

It’s not a Republican thing either. For Republicans have no corner on the patriot market. It’s not a tea party thing. For tea partiers can’t reach the mountain top alone. This is an American thing. And if anybody thinks Reverend King’s life taught me no lessons, they don’t know me at all.

There is right. And there is wrong. There are people who want to improve the nation like Mr. King, and those who want to defile it, like
Jeremy Wright.

I am a conservative. My parents were liberals. Most of my friends vote Democratic and were proud to see the first African American President. But I’m sorry, so sorry it had to be someone who’s never been proud of this country. Who’s done everything in his power
to hurt and destroy it.

Mr. Obama, sir, America is on the march once again. We’re not afraid of you. You and your cronies can call us teabaggers and
Nazis and wingnuts till the cows come home. But you, sir, are trying to desecrate hallowed ground, American soil. The first American revolution began at the Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts. It’s as good a place as any for the second one to start. For tonight, we heard more than a victory and concession speech.

In 1775, at Concord, it was the shot heard ’round the world. Tonight, it was the vote.

I think this shows there are also a lot of Patriotic Dems [*gasp*] who are just as furious about what the Socialist/Marxist/Progressives want to do with their radical agendas, bombastic lies, their thieving power-grabs and willful planning of the destruction of our freedoms and our country and our voice/vote. We are all AMERICANS first, and a political party of any strip should never be allowed to FUNDAMENTALLY tear us apart and forcefully transform us into something ugly, frightening and utterly unrecognizable.

Well folks, we pulled it off. I’ve never been so proud of casting a vote than I was in casting one for Brown this morning. I just came back from the Brown victory party here in Boston. The place was PACKED. And raucous!

We’re not 100% out of the woods yet though. The health care bill still isn’t quite yet in the coffin. It’s on life support though and the citizenry is pulling on the plug….

Samizdat: Oh, I’ve started saving up lefty troll quotes. I’ll haul them out and wave them like a bloody flag (or Schilling’s bloody sock) in front of the trolls’ noses.

They are so wrong and are so positive they are right. So dumb and so positive they are smarter than anyone else. Their juvenile arrogance, their jeers about teabaggera and red-necks and wingnuts is now going to start coming back to bite them in the butt in a big way.

The leftists thought they were being terribly clever when they thought up the obscene insult “teabagger.” But here’s a question for the trolls: if we’re teabaggers, who, exactly, are the teabaggees? Dear me, it looks like you are. Open wide, lefties, and enjoy the view!

“While of course the spin is that this is some sort of referendum on Obama’s policies, it was really just a matter of Coakley running a really poor campaign…..”

I hope, with every fiber of my being, that Obama thinks the same way.

I hope, with every fiber of my being, that Obama ignores the results in MA and does anything and EVERYTHING (including a few more back room deals for fellow Dems who just might NOT think this was all Coakley’s fault) in an effort to cram more of his policies through.

Because even if you are 100% correct BC, there will be ENOUGH Dems in Congress who will believe that this WAS a referendum on Obama’s policies to ensure that we are at a stalemate. There will be ENOUGH Dems in states much redder than MA that they won’t feel they can take the chance. And the harder that Pelosi/Reid/Obama try to shove their policies down our throats, unsuccessfully, the worse it will be for the Dems in November.

You think that the Republican position of basically being obstructionists will hurt them? Take another, LONG LOOK, at what happened tonight, in one of the Bluest states in the Union. And then you just keep right on rooting Obama on for the next 10 months…….

trudged alot of miles the past four days carrying signs to overwhelmingly supportive crowds…My wife began getting signatures for scott in Aug..when it was Scott who?…Spent over 8 hours at the polls in the snowfall today holding signs…it was grass roots…tea partyesque up here …and oh so worth it!….we did it!!!! yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooo

I have always stopped short of thinking through the exact details of the “Tea bag” act. I guess I hadn’t comprehended the possibilites. What a great perspective for all of us to consider.

Donna, thanks for eloquently capturing the Marxist “personally conducted tour through life” mentality in your second paragraph. The misguided ignore and avert their eyes from the atrophying effect of Marxism/Socialism on the human soul. They can’t stand inequality of result; they are happier with the fellowship of the miserable where all are equally wanting. When you think about the effect, it’s completely immoral. It ignores the human condition and the pursuit of happiness.

Thanks to all of the great folks in Mass.!
You gave us CHANGE and now we have HOPE !

Now keep your eye on the Democrat “Trashing Machine” who will attempt to undermine and circumvent the process. This election for the Obama liberals has always been about the acquisition of power at the expense of anything or anyone – so long Martha. They made the foolish mistake of taking you great patriots for granted.

Obama can only go to his usual position of trying to divide the US by blaming, diverting , and lies. This ,he hopes, will generate a sense of anger and victimhood for his political advantage.”Now let me be perfectly clear..”

Donna V: Being a MA voter… you’re entirely welcome, it was our pleasure. Thanks for posting some of the idiotic statements that some people made. MA Patriot will probably agree, this WAS a referendum on Obama, Washington, Congress, and the crap they’ve been pulling and WE ARE taking our country back from those who tried to take it from us.

The most distressing part of this result (welcome though it is), is that I am unable to jump around like a deranged gibbon in the presence of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow and gloat, personally, to their faces. I want to wave my hands right up close and yell, “boo-yah!” I want to see the crumpled mouths and incipient waterworks one normally associates with a freshly-smacked toddler. Seriously, folks, what joy is there in Schadenfreude if it can’t be shared with the object of your derision? I want to see Andrew Sullivan cry, not just read about it after the fact.

Please don’t call me a teabagger. It’s an offensive sexual slur. A better term would be tea partier. If you’ve never been to one of the tea party rallies you should go. It’s great to see hundreds or thousands of normal people demonstrate in favor of their conservative political beliefs.

This is a great day, isn’t it? I don’t care if Scott Brown isn’t the perfect conservative. I think he’ll be a great senator for Massachusetts.

What nanny-staters like BC and his ilk fail to realize is this: Just because you think there ought to be a law doesn’t mean there really ought to be a law.

Why did Clinton leave office with a budget surplus? Because he had to deal with a Republican Congress. Why did Bush 43 leave office with a budget deficit? Because he had to deal with a Republican Congress.

Happy first anniversary as president, how does it feel to know that people do not really like the policies you have been promoting?

Real America voted against you and your administration as well as the democrats with closed door bill crafting, how long did you think the country was gonna put up with such poor governance.

The latest elections for governors and other positions are but a view of what will be happening in November this year and also 2012. The people realize they made a mistake in either not voting in 2008 or voting for you!

Yes. Absolutely. By all means, keep thinking that. You betcha, the voters in MA really really really LIKE the way that Obama is leading this country and the way Pelosi/Reid lead their respective houses in Congress. All those mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging ‘teabaggers’ really don’t represent a sizable chunk of the population. You keep right on thinking that, skeeziks ol’ buddy.

In fact, I think the best way forward for Pelosi/Reid/Obama is to KEEP DOING what they’ve been doing. In fact, I sincerely hope that they follow all the ‘sage advice’ coming out of the firebrands over at Kos/HuffPo. I sincerely hope they go massively on the offensive.

PLEASE go massively on the offensive. Skeeziks is right; the vote in MA was rigged and the Dems really do have a mandate to cram their policies through – heck, mainstream America LIKES IT when one party in charge of both the Legislative and Executive Branches steamrolls the opposition party. I think Pelosi/Reid/Obama should use every trick in the book (and make up a few more while they’re at it) to get HCR up for a vote and delay sitting Brown. I hope they lean, and lean HARD, on any weak-kneed Dems who might be ‘interpreting’ the MA vote the wrong way.

And then come November skeeziks can watch Diebold all over the U.S. giving us a replay of MA.

43. BC:While of course the spin is that this is some sort of referendum on Obama’s policies, it was really just a matter of Coakley running a really poor campaign…

BC: sorry to break this to you, but people in Massachusettes disagree with you. The big issue was NOT that MARCIA called Chuck Schilling a Red Sox Fan. While that gaffe certainly didn’t help her, voters had more important things on their minds, such as ∅bama’s health care policies.

Scott Brown’s opposition to congressional health care legislation was the most important issue that fueled his U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts, according to exit poll data collected following the Tuesday special election.
Fifty-two percent of Bay State voters who were surveyed as the polls closed said they opposed the federal health care reform measure and 42 percent said they cast their ballot to help stop President Obama from passing his chief domestic initiative.
“I’m not surprised it was the top issue, but I was surprised by how overwhelming an issue it was. It became a focal point for the frustration that has been brewing with voters, and it’s a very personal issue that affects everyone,” said Tony Fabrizio of Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, a Republican firm that conducted the exit poll of 800 voters.
“A plurality of voters said their vote was to stop the president’s health care plan — more than those saying it was a vote against his policies in general,” Fabrizio wrote in a memo that accompanied his exit polling.

Your claim that MARCIA’S running a poor campaign, and not ∅bama’s policies, was the reason Brown won is far from the reality of what was on the minds of Massachusettes voters. Perhaps it might be said that you really live in an alter-universe .